Saturday, April 14, 2012

Hoping for change ($)

From CBS 62:

President Barack Obama is coming to the Motor City for a $1 million pizza party being thrown for him compliments of Denise Ilitch, daughter of Little Caesars’ founders Mike and Marian Ilitch. Ilitch is opening her home April 18 for the fundraiser where movers and shakers are being asked to pony up thousands to add to his re-election coffer while getting a chance to rub shoulders with the most powerful man on the planet. “I’m honored to have been asked,” by the Obama campaign to host,” Ilitch said of the event she and husband, Jim Scalici, will hold at their Metro Detroit home. She made the comments on “Michigan Matters” when asked about media reports. Watch the full episode
When asked what she planned to serve, she said: “Pizza! But, we’ll be serving it on sterling silver plates!” 
The price of admission isn’t for those on a budget. $40,000 buys access to the cocktail reception, formal photo with Obama and dinner. $10,000 buys dinner and a photo. 
The event is the latest twist in the political relationship between Obama and Ilitch, eldest of the Ilitch’s seven children. Mike and Marian also own the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, Fox Theatre, Motor City Casino and more. The family is among the wealthiest and most influential in Michigan with an empire worth billions.

Detroit of course is an enacted parable of Democratic Party governance. Massive corruption, war-zone crime, civic desolation, fundraisers for acquisitive machine politicos.

A city where you're more likely to go to prison if you're elected Mayor than if you shoot someone on the street.

Forty grand for pizza with the Big Cheese. Eat the rich, eat with the rich, whatever... 

1 comment:

  1. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
    Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

    (Matthew 19:23-24)

    The darn pizza better be good!

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